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...this year? The top seed will be Jose Luis Clerc. You never heard of him? A relative unknown, despite his ninth-place world ranking. Clerc's obscurity symbolizes the problems haunting the only world-class tennis tournament that can be reached on the Green Line. Last year he beat one James Scott Connors, whom the tournament committee had paid in the neighborhood of $50,000 just to show up and help sell tickets. With Connors out of the lineup early, sales slumped and the tournament ended up just breaking even. Which, considering the huge amounts of money it had lost...
...eight Vatican-appointed bishops in mainland China, five are under house arrest and the fate of two others is unknown. That leaves Jesuit Dominic Tang, who in 1950 was appointed apostolic administrator, or temporary head, of the Canton diocese by Pope Pius XII and subsequently spent 22 years in a Communist prison. With church conditions improving dramatically in China, Tang was freed last year. Surprisingly, he also won the approval of the province's government to resume duties as administrator of his diocese...
...gray, rainy dawn last week, a virtually unknown colt named Summing started the slow walk from the barn on the backstretch at New York's Belmont Park. Ominous clouds were lowering as Summing jogged onto the training track. Then an exercise rider set him down on the rail, and Summing began to run. Railbirds could not believe their eyes, and the track's dockers stared at their watches in amazement. The bay colt pounded through the mist at a sizzling pace, and when he flashed past the mile pole Summing had set a new training track record...
...piano; forsworn, too, is the "sewing machine" school of Baroque interpretation, which made 500 pieces by one composer sound like the same piece written 500 times. Today's early music specialists have developed techniques and virtuosity that allow them to perform with a freedom of interpretation that was unknown 30 years ago. And they play on replicas of authentic old instruments, among them recorders, harpsichords, viols, theorbos (long-necked lutes with extra bass strings) and dolcians (precursors of the bassoon). Nearly 100 instrument makers from several countries had their wares on display...
DIED. Roger Wheeler, 55, multimillionaire entrepreneur in oil, minerals, real estate and sporting ventures, also chairman and largest stockholder of the Telex Corp., a Tulsa-based computer and electronics firm with 1980 revenues of $186.5 million; of a gunshot to the head, fired at point-blank range by an unknown assailant, as he got into his car after a regular weekly golf game; in Tulsa. The owner of World Jai Alai in Miami and former owner of Hartford (Conn.) Jai Alai, Wheeler had testified publicly about alleged underworld involvement in the sport...